Bernie Sanders: “Debs spent three years of his life in jail for his…”

“But he educated and organized a whole lot of people. He stood up to the masters of war in his time and paid a price for it. Depp Debs spent three years of his life in jail for his opposition to World War I. one of those stupid, endless wars that we should never have gotten into. The guy was, at his time considered almost a Christlike figure who would give you the shirt off his back.” (00:30–00:39)

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